Car-platform door and step guard.



H. HOWSON.

OAR PLATFORM DOOR AND STEP GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2,1910.

977,310. Patented Nov. 29, 1-910.

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H. HOWSON.

CAR PLATFORM DOOR ANDSTEP GUARD.

, APPLICATION FILED SBPT.2, 1910. 977,310, Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

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OAR PLATFORM DOOR AND STEP GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

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' UNITED, sri rns P ENT" OFFICE.

HENRY HOWSON, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 'rr'rn J. G. BRILL PE NSYLVAN A, A oo-RronA'rIoN or PENNSYL- COMIANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, VANIA. i

certain Improvements in Car-Platform Doors and Step Guards, of which the following is a specification.

y nvention relates tocertain improvements in passenger cars of the type in which one or both sides by doors. .My invention is particularly adapted to the type 'of'car' in whicha permanent platform step. is used.

The object of my invention is to so construct car having doors closing the platform that when the doors are closed the platformstep. will not be exposed, yetwhen the doors are open the platform step will be unobstructed for the use 0 passengers.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1, is a side View ofsuflicient of one end of a passenger car to illustrate my invention; the doors being ina closed position; Fig. 2, is a view of the lower'portion of the car illustrated in Fig. 1, with the doors in the open position; Fig. 3, is a sectional plan view on the line 33, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, is a transverse. sectional viewon the'line 4-4, Fig. 1; Fig. 5, is a transverse sectional. view on the line 55, Fig. 3; Fig. 6, is a perspec-- tive view of one of thesteps; Fig. 7, is a ,view illustrating a modification of the in-,

'- fvention and also illustratingfa single pair ;of doors; Fig. 8, .is a View illustrating a modification in which the guardis moved out ofposition before the door 1s; opened,

and moved into position after the door is closed; and- Fig. 9, is-a view of a modification of the step.

. A is the body of the car.

,B is the platform's form.

One side of the car is closed, or provided with a door which is only opened when the platform is at the forward end of the car Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application filed September 2, 1916. Serial No. 580,180.

of the platform are closedconnected by rodsand one of the each pair connected to operating mechanism within easy reach of the instance.

B is the front vestibule casing of the plat the step,

partition may be used to separate the ingress portion of the platform from the egress por-.

tion;

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Thistype of car is what is known as a pay-as-you-enter car, the conductor standing on or near the platform to receive the fares of passengers as they enter the car, but it will be understood that my improved door construction may be used in connection with cars either of the city or subur-- ban types, or on roads in which the cars are coupled en train.

The doors maybe opened and closed any suitable mechanism. In the drawings; Fig. 3, I have shown the doorsof each pair doors of conductor.

,-F are the steps; the step F being opv posite the ingress and the step F opening; these ste piece, as illustrate the'form of two separate steps, as in Fig. 1, without departing from theessential feaopening of the platform 5 may be made in one tures of the invention. The steps are per-- manently secured to' the platform and both the tread and riser are fixtures.

being opposite the egress" in, Fig. 9, or may bein Attached to the doors D, D are guards which extend over the. treadportion when the doors are closed. The guards d, d are attached to doors D, D5 and the guards e, e

are attached tothe doors E, E. The doors D, D are hinged at n' to the door frames, while the doors E, E are hinged at n to the door frames. The doors, as illustrated in Figs-1 to 5 inclusive, close against the edge of the platform. The guards are hinged to the doors by spring hinges iin the present The hinges may, however, be of any suitable type. r

hen the doors 7 ar'opened the s rings force the guards to assume a vertica position in line with the doors, as indicated in- Fig. 2, andwhen the doors are closed the guards rest upon supports at-each s1de of the steps'F, F Fig; 6. These supports have inclined faces, so that-when the doorsdae closed, as in Fig. 4, the guards are force assume an inclined positlon in respect to the doors and extend over the tread portidn of thus preventing any person standing on the step when the doors are closed.

I preferably so proportion the guard that it .does not close directly on the step so that forcing the guards to assume a vertical posi- 977,31()' 3 sition in respectto the door when the door is closed, the guard, When the door is open, as-

are open, the guards, when the doorsare suming a. vertical position In respect to the I close resting on the steps inen inclined door. position so as to protect the tread of the 6. The combination in a passenger car, of step.

a latforni, two doorways located side by In testimony whereof,

side at one side of the platform, a permaname to this specification,

nentstep at the side of the platform and extwo subscribing Witnesses.

i I have signed my l tending beyond the doorways, a pair of HENRY HOVVSON \Vitnesses in the presence 0* dOOI'S hllIl in each dOOl'WZl .3. 'LltII'Cl hlil ed a 7 b T DI. SHUEE,

to the lower edge of'each door, means for M. A.- BARR.

tion in respect to the doors when the doors 

